Ecology classwork

Student Biodiversity mini-assignments



Classwork 1/17/2013
Click here for a biodiversity review.
Click here for ecotourism
Click here for 6th mass extinction
Click here for water conservation
Click here biodiversity hotspots
Click here for ethnobotany



Biodiversity videos
1. What is biodiversity?
2. What are benefits of biodiversity?



Student current event presentations

For students who missed student presentations. You must watch the student picked videos below and write a summary and response for each one.

Thursday, December 20th
1. Crystal: Click here for tigers versus lions


Tuesday, December 18th

1. The Aral Sea (found within former soviet union soil) supported many forms of life holding the food chain together and supporting it with it’s rich source of water keeping alive plants, animals, and ourselves. The Aral Sea fed and provided many things that could have kept the lives around it’s now desert like area more healthily stable, and less illnesses would be less likely. The Aral Sea was the 4th largest lake until Soviet irrigation projects diverted several of the lakes main water sources. The lake has now lost 90% of it’s water and is now known as a ship graveyard.  (Video about Aral Sea) 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NC5UIEx83fo

2. Kyle: Click here for the video Inside a hail storm

3. Sophie: Click here for the video on Turtles and Turtles part 2.

4. Nick D: Click here for the video on Pythons.